Seminole Man Charged With Trying To Hire Killer

AROUND CENTRAL FLORIDA

September 2, 1995

A Seminole County man was charged Friday with trying to hire an undercover agent to kill his father.

Robert Luke Westenberger, 19, of 4207 Gabriella Lane was arrested at 4 p.m. Friday by agents with the City-County Investigative Bureau. He was charged with solicitation to commit murder and possession of a firearm by a person under 21. He was being held without bail in the Seminole County Jail.

CCIB agents heard that Westenberger was trying to find someone to kill his father, also named Robert. The son allegedly was angry that his father refused to give him some trust-fund money. Seminole sheriff's spokesman Ed McDonough said the father recently threw Westenberger out of the family home in the Tuscawilla subdivision.

An agent met with the younger Westenberger late Thursday. He offered the agent $600 to kill his father, and gave the agent a .38-caliber revolver, McDonough said.

The elder Westenberger operates an Orange County used-car business, and his son attends Seminole Community College in Sanford, McDonough said.